It happened today – this day in history – May 14
1264: Simon de Montfort the younger, Earl of Leicester, defeats Henry III at the Battle of Lewes in the 2nd
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It happened today – this day in history – May 7
558: The dome of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul collapses. 1429: The siege of Orleans is broken by Joan of
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It happened today – this day in history – May 6
1502: James Tyrrell, the alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower is executed. 1527: Spanish and German imperial troops
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It happened today – this day in history – April 15
1450: The French defeat the English at the Battle of Formigny in the 100 Years’ War. 1452: Birth of Leonardo
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It happened today – this day in history – March 16
597BC: Babylonians capture Jerusalem. 1190: Jews living in York are besieged in Clifford’s Tower and massacred or commit suicide rather
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It happened today – this day in history – January 19
1419: Rouen surrenders to Henry V in the Hundred Years’ War. 1547: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is executed in
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It happened today – this day in history – November 26
1476: Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes
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It happened today – this day in history – November 18
1307: William Tell reputedly shoots an apple off his son’s head with a crossbow in Switzerland. 1477: First English dated
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It happened today – this day in history – October 18
1009: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks
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It happened today – this day in history – September 24
1493: Christopher Columbus embarks on his second expedition to the New World. 1529: Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his Ottoman
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